Corsairs Legacy, a pirate-themed game from Ukrainian studio Mauris, has received a major update with treasure mechanics and squadron battles to mark its first anniversary since its release in Steam Early Access. The developers said they had to cut costs and downsize their team, but they still wanted to create a quality game.
Corsairs Legacy, a pirate-themed game from Ukrainian studio Mauris, has received a major update with treasure mechanics and squadron battles to mark its first anniversary since its release in Steam Early Access. The developers said they had to cut costs and downsize their team, but they still wanted to create a quality game.
«Exactly a year ago, we opened early access to the game Corsairs Legacy, where we showed its basic mechanics. We understood the risk of a failed launch, because the level of the game was far from planned. But we are an indie studio, and the lack of external funding pushed us to make exactly this decision: to open access to the game and continue working on it, taking into account user feedback and suggestions», — Mauris reported on the Corsairs Legacy page on Steam.
According to the developers, initial sales were lower than their expectations, which forced them to make significant changes in the organization of the development process and in the vision of the final result.
«We had to cut all possible costs and significantly reduce the size of the team. From the very beginning, we wanted to make a high-quality game that players would like, and at no point did we abandon this goal», — Mauris assures.
The developers believe that during the first 3 years of full development they managed to create the necessary foundation for the game. Now they want to implement an open world in it and fill it with content.
Mauris also released its 7th major content update and launched a holiday sale for the game on Steam. The developers' efforts included:
Let us recall that in 2023, a scandal broke out in the Ukrainian segment of the social network X (Twitter) — Ukrainian gamers were outraged that the game Corsairs Legacy from the Ukrainian studio Mauris still claimed full Russian localization, including voice acting.
dev.ua contacted the project developers to clarify the situation and received a response.
